The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 30 January 1929

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  • 19 1 Straits Echo WEEKLY EDITION $lB PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 CTS. Vol. 27. PENANG, JANUARY 30, 1929 No. 5
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    • 256 1 in Leading Articles Miscellaneous (Con.) Charity Begins at Home (38 Qur Trolley-Buses 85 t Local Journalism 68 y] y Friend the Barber! 86 f Gleanings from the Home Mail 69 Seremban News 87 Prohibition 69 Anna Pavlova 87 S jl Mr. Bennett E. Shaw 70. 81 Anglo-Chinese Treaty 89 Qr
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    • 71 2 Wg»iMF RJ eT 8 E Oi 1 li J I i f' S H E i ...fflgHßi I wiimi s W irwiil I i Ki Mi I 1 Un iiH I 111 IB i rx 1 w I/] s >. soc,tT ’"a£ Sli of cHArtpAGHj mt <w w I M
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  • 964 68 Those of us who follow closely the trend of affairs in England cannot fail to have been distressed by what is happening in the English, or rather the Welsh, mining districts. There, the unemployment is so terrible that His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales himself
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  • 765 68 In this article we refer only to European papers published in the Colonies: we have no knowledge of the Vernacular Press. A history of the various newspapers that are to be found scattered through the British Dominions would be of very great interest. No man seems to know
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  • 1418 69 In order to help readers of this column in future, we intend to give sub-heuG-ings. In our opinion there is nothing more annoying for the reader than having to wade through matter in winch he is not interested. The ordinary leading article is concerned as
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  • 1040 69 “A famous American Prohibitonist was mobbed by medical students in broad daylight in the streets of L®‘ don, and barely escaped with the loss of one eye, and his back all but broken. If he had been equally famous for anything else, the United States Government would have insisted
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  • 888 70 All those who knew him in the past nust be glad that it has been possible or the ex-Headmaster of the Victoria institution, Selangor, to re-visit Malaya. Mr. Shaw still has many riends all over the country: —European riends. The number of his Asiatic friends is
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  • 763 71 The Silver Thorn. By Hugh Walpole. fMacmillan 7/0.) Everything that is published by Hugh Walpole 1 buy at once, and I must sav frankly that I was disappointed a. first wi'L this collection of stories by the author who charmed me so much in “Wintersmoon It
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  • 835 71 (Benn. 7/6.) This is a devastating book. I wonder whether Malayan girls’ schools are anything like this English girl school is recorded to be? I cannot think so. I know, at any rate, that English boys schools'in Malaya suffer far less from the petty bickerings and smallnesses
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    • 173 72 BTBA,TS EOHO Sir. with Mr. Henry J. I affects health and Spooner that g speaking o f day«»ich I lo not think Can '"‘we’ in P pXg. »re experiencing all double and disgust m connection sorts of tr fh e j ay _t ime one With n a °H
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    • 131 72 [To the Editor of the Straits Echo.] Sir, Referring to L. H. G.’s enquiry m your issue of the 15th instant, the under-noted paragraph from a Text book will, I trust, serve a useful guide for his purpose: “The court will not interfere against the members of a
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    • 305 72 ITo The Editor of the Straits Echo Sir, You recentlv dwelt upon the subject a our Post Office, and it is to be hoped 1a vou will persist in voicing the feelof disgust of everyone that has usmess to do there. It is disreputable Wn tbe
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    • 506 72 [To The Editor of the Straits Echo I Sir, The following may perhaps be of interest to your numerous readers as it has some bearing on the subject of “A Wireless Horror” which appeared in your issue of 18—1—29. According to the philosophers of India the whole
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    • 72 72 [To The Editor of the Straits Echo.] Sir, With reference to the letter by your correspondent, Mr. Keng, and to your remarks thereon, it is‘very surprising that no steps are being taken by this Competition to satisfy her competitors regarding the two words in question. Thanking you for
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    • 119 72 [To the Editor of the Straits Echo.] Sir, I have been instructed by my SubCommittee to ask you to give publicity to the following decisions of the Committee 1. Mr. S. Md. Yusuf of 31 Halfway Road and Dr. S. Md. Baboo have been appointed representatives of
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    • 234 72 [To The Editor of the Straits Echo.] Sir, I very much regret the attitude (not the tone) of your leading article in today’s issue. It is right that charity should begin at home btft it is equally right that it should not end there. You suggest
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    • 90 73 [To The Editor of the Straits Echo.j Sir, We, the inhabitants of Cantonment Road,’ would he pleased to see one of ♦he Municipal Dog-shooters up in tins district in the early part of the morning as there are lots of sports at the corner of Cantonment and Kelawei
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    • 238 73 [To The Editor of the Straits Echo.] Sir, Tn a letter appearing in your paper yesterday a correspondent roundly condemns noise with particular reference to motor cars and night hawkers. Though noise is a dull subject to talk about, but if one gives it a little common sense thought
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    • 191 73 Sir, I shall be very much obliged to know through the medium of vour valuable paper whether The Adi Dravida Mali ajana Sabah is still existing in Penang. It was established in the year 1925 having their patrons the late Hou. P. K. Nambyar and Swami
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    • 67 73 [To The Editor of the Straits Echo J Sir, Congratulations on resuming your .“Financial Chat” column, which supplies a long felt want. The information is of great value to the investing Public, and I consider “Jeon” a worthy successor to “Bohaz”, both of whom show an almost uncanny
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    • 134 73 [To The Editor of the Straits Echo,] Sir, With reference to your para on page 8 of this morning's issue you state the “Kedah” recently averaged 20.63 knots an hour between Singapore and Penang. Penang being a shipping centre, accuracy in shipping terms in its newspapers, I
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    • 263 73 [To The Editor of the Straits Echo. Sir, I regret to note in to-day’s issue of your valuable paper the contribution of a “Local Chetty on the Festival of Thaipusam.” The article, to say the least of it, is in very had taste. On the 24th instant, the God
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    • 139 73 [To The Editor of the Straits Echo i Sir, I shall be glad if. you will let me have a little space in your co? respondence column so that I ma make this appeal: The House of Worship at Ayer known as Ruinah Sulook which was started by
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  • 298 73 SUCCESSFUL COMPETITORS The following are the successful competitors in the ‘“Pinang Gazette” $2,000 Motor Car and Motor Cycle Reliability Trial which was held last Sunday. The “Pinang Gazette” states there are no prizes for the fourth, fifth and sixth places and that the results
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  • 1105 74 ITS PAST AND PRESENT. ll' that when you visit the 1 d n B lch of John Little Co., FTt purehaee some article or other Ltd «me to your mind that you it eVer t W in a particularly interba,e 8 ctiblishment in a particularly estmg »s few
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  • 793 74 FIRST ACCUSED FOUND GUILTY. DEFENCE OF ALIBI FALLS THROUGH. Before Mr. Justice Stevens and a Special Jury yesterday the trial was continued of the four Sungei Bakap Tamils —Suppramanian, Kanen, Tanimali end Supyah—who were charged with causing the death of another Tamil, Kanoo, on or about November 12
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  • 262 75 At the third Annual General Meeting of “The Spartans’’ held at “Morningside’’, 140. Burmah Road, Penang, on Sunday, the 20th inst., the following Office-bearers were elected for the vear 1929 Patron. Mr. Cheah Keo Ee, •T.J., President, Mr. Lim Keat Leong (re-elected), Vice President, Mr. Ong Huck Leng
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  • 303 75 MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE, IPOH BOY’S CRUEL FATE. Some light has at last been thrown on the baffling mystery surrounding the disappearance of a youthful Chinese clerk of I noh. says the Ipoh correspondent of the Malayan Daily Express. The young man who was employed by the Perak
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  • 127 75 LAWN TENNIS RESULTS. The following are the results of lawn tennis tournament ties plaved on Monaav: Singles Handicap Class “A” __4 D. D. B. Cook beat 4 T wn q 2 fi 9 Wilkinson Single Handicap Class “B” o OvJ be- given a —n A o K
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  • 404 75 ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT, The following is a copy of a i rtt received by Dr. R. V. Patel H Secretary of the Penang Indian’ fiecen tion Committee, from the Private Sec tary to His Excellency the Sir, I am directed by His Excellency the Governor to
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  • 1749 76 By George Mack s Dent (jWaya > [Reviewed by H. R- Cheeseman.] Tn my opinion, this is the most valu,bk“of all the books for teachers that ppeared in 1928. It becomes the sixtn i„ mv list of indispensable books on .he "'bine of English to boys
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  • 424 77 If, in a world where life is born from death, And from the fate of dying none is free, And the chief law is strife, and every breath Of man and beast and bird and fish and tree Is daily drawn in dissolution’s doubt; If, in
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  • 1436 77 SEVERAL UPSETS. MRS. MILES DISTRIBUTES PRIZES, (By Our Sporting Correspondent.) The Penang Turf Club one day extra meeting, on Friday, proved a highly su cessful affair and, from the point of good dividends, was a great deal better than the five preceding days. The programme opened
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  • 1326 78 SUCCESSFUL AMATEUR MEETING. (By Our Sporting Correspondent) The Penang Polo Club held a very successful amateur meeting on Saturday on the Race course. Coming just after six days of professional racing, it was something in the nature of an anti-climax, although the sport proved interesting in its
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  • 357 79 $ll,BOO FOR 8 HORSES. On Saturday, at 11 a.m., Mr. Lim Eng Hooi, put up for sale the following prominent race horses at No. 1 China Street, all belonging to the “Sum See Kongsee’’ and trained by T. C. Thompson. The best price realised
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  • 253 79 SERVICES BEAT PERAK (From Our Own Correspond art, Kuala Lumpur, January The Malaya Cup Rugby final*£3 the Services and Perak drew b large crowd. Tremendous entk?. Very prevailed. The ground was hard Services won by a goal to nil From start to finish pl ay pe a
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  • 287 79 ROBBERY NOT THE MOTIVE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Inch. January 25. In connection with the Penang Hill murder if is now understood that the °lues to the identity of the victim of f he foul outrage were furnished by a letter and a pocket hook that were
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  • 2071 80 The vice of unpunctuality afflicts Penan» afflictS the °«ers not that a performance is Ito begin at 9.30 p m.; even if ■“eLn at 10.30 p.m. there would stiV be people who were late Is it because it is fashionable and that people causing others inconvenience-is
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  • 67 81 SHIP’S OFFICER KILLED. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, January 24 Mr. McLan, an officer of the Straits Steamship Company, died of injuries while Mr. E. A. Ellis, of Baffles Institution, and Mr. Bertley, a shhip’s officer, were sent to hospital as the result of the motor
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  • 114 81 iProm Our Own Correßpondent.) Ipoh, January 25. •h* 1 Annual Regatta and Land Sports will be held in connection with the Chinese New Year to take place at Lumut during the holidays. Numerous competitions have been arranged, including sailing and rowing races. I FoikM leaves
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  • 700 81 BY SIR EDMUND GOSSE, C.B. (Heinemann. 8/6 Net.) The death o f Sir Edmund Gosse B °duened me. It seemed that there was another link snapped with the older generation. I had heard so much about Gosse from my la*e Master A. CBenson —and remember well the
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  • 98 81 God save the King! His people? plead With the old words in urgent needAccustomed words, so brief, so fey To-day heart-searching, potent, new Of thy great mercy. Lord, make speed To save our gracious King, give heed While for his life we intercede, Uphold him and
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  • 285 81 ARRIVAL IN PENANG AND DEPARTURE FOR KUALA LUMPUR. Recently the Victoria Institution Old Boys’ Association of Kuala Lumpur desided to invite the old headmaster oi many of them, Mr. Bennett E. Shaw, to revisit Malaya and them. In response to the invitation so corlially issued as
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  • 354 82 Some Excellent Dancing ILast Night At The Town Hall. p four things that 1 noted Tber .X hst night at the Town Hall. P Brt :U I the place wa9 near,y fu F 'T °J of the time the house was a d m k enjoying itself; secondly
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  • 38 82 Meteorological Readings. Penang Hill tor the week ending January 13, 1929: otal Rainfall M. M.: nil; Average 'tolly evaporation in M. M.: 1.85; Averse daily maximum: 75.29; Average m, p irnum 65.57; Average mean temperature: 70.43.
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  • 115 82 rrom Our Own Correspondent.) i Ipoh, Januarv 28 senop A? lan weat her and in the proof j r£re Rubbering the Sultan aer osg the Pontoon bridge ting the f iver open bv cutcross of f? e w h lc h the driving <Ct °L Car
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  • 375 82 Mayo: the Champion Jockey Billett the Leading Trainer. The following are the complete statistics for the Penang Turf Club New Year Meeting and also the Turf Club Extra Meeting which was run on Friday last At the end of the fifth day Mayo and Daniels
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  • 992 82 [By Nondum.j' It happens that I have never been in Penang before when the festival of Thai•;usam was being celebrated, and. But let ill? relate what I saw, smelt, heard, and felt. Pity The Police. I was really sorry for the police ofi duty on Friday last. No
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  • 127 83 DEATH OF ELECTRICAL APPRENTICE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, January 24 An accident occurred at Kampar. resulting in the death of a young electrical apprentice, the nephew- of Towkav Kon Cheng. It appears that the man was engaged at work at the Kinta Distribution Co. He was
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  • 448 83 BIG BLAZE AT KAMPONG PANTEI. /From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca, Jan. 19. At about 11.30 a.m. on Thursday, Kampong Pantei, the busiest part of Malacca Town, was the scene of a gre’at deal of excitement when the premises of Chop Soon Hong, salt-fish merchants, caught fire. The fire
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  • 8 83 <From Our Own Correspondent i
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  • 178 83 COMPILED BV S. C, COLOm (By “Icon”.) The usefulness of this book harHl needs any emphasis. In this counS unless a man is a banker, broker money changer, he is scarcely expect to be conversant with the very invohJ calculations necessitated bv the volrates of the
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  • 278 83 The following- letter on whv norp has not won a Queen’s Scholarship is “writ, sarcastic’’ to the “Free W bv “Also Ran:” “Tn addition to the Cinemas there are two other reason? for our failure in Queen’s Scholarships. Raffias Institution has hear oTPatlv handieanaad bv having
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  • 1688 84 CHAIRMAN’S SPEECH- meeting of the Incorporated At f Planters the Chairman., Mr. S .dressing the meeting, said: ■''z I”’liemen—lt 1 ”’liemen—lt is customary at the ,en General Meeting of this Society taTe Chairman to present something nature of a resume of the years v\nd I propose to conform
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  • 211 85 The death occurred at the General Hospital, Singapore, on Wednesday of Major George E. Ryan Millard who had been with Malayan Motors for about 18 months. He was 53 years of age and for some time past had been sufferrng from the effects of wounds received
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  • 179 85 [Contributed By A Local Chetty] On 23 January, 1929, The God named Shanmugha, started to the temple of Water-Mountain, early morning at about 6 a.m. from the Penang Street. In the line The God welcomed by the Europeans, Chinese and other gentlemen, arrived his decorated place
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  • 636 85 [By “Icon”] The talk of the week has beai the rise in the price of Rubber which at one time soared to within an ace of lid- per lb. Then came the inevitable reaction whion was reflected in the movement of the shares. The rise of over 2d.
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  • 170 85 THE FIRST FOR JELUTONG. There arrived at our wharf yesterday ex s.s. “Glenamoy” the first of a aeries of new trolley buses which are to arrive out here shortly to augment the fleet of that kind of creeper-like landcraft which is being called upon to try to lessen
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  • 267 85 BULLETIN OF LEAGUE EASTERS BUREAU. For the w r eek ended January 19 1929: Adon 1 smallpox case, Basrah: 5 smallpox cases and 4 deaths, Bassein: 1 cholera death, Bombay: 1 plague death; 34 smallpox cases and 13 deaths al against 21 cases and 14 deaths
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  • 871 86 [By “Keytop .■Good davl” greeted my friend the t a 0 I entered his shop to have bar aireut. He was abrupt because y h9 limited knowledge of English Whatever his deficiencies in the art of ««tinn mv friend was politeness “T h”’ SU me into
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  • 862 86 THE TRAFFIC PROBLEM AS USUAL. (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, January 18. The traffic problem which is engaging the attention of the responsible authorities in other towns has not led to any serious discussion in Seremban. The traffic is well controlled by an Assistant Commissioner of Police in
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  • 1606 87 Some time before 9.30 p.m. on Suk dny night the Town Hall had begun to fill, and very few people were late for one of the greatest nights in Penang’s musical history. All the same the Overture was ruined, or at any rate could scarcely be heard above
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  • 77 87 SIR DAVID GALLOWAY’S DEMEANOUR. (From Our Own Correspondent-! Singapore, J anuft T r rt In the Alsagoff will case Sir 1 f Murison, the Chief Justice, in a writ» judgment said that Sir David evidence regarding the signature sho he was more positive on the point
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  • 2476 88 of roads and 'Xi«OL OF TRAFFIC. c p. D. Hogan moved two 1 vrtaut motions at yesterday’s .meet--IUIP J the Municipal Commissioners j n J h °of which were adopted. In one S Hogan criticised the naming of k Miter Municipal presidents, etc, n the other he moved
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  • 229 89 FALSE CHARGE AGAINST TAIPING RAJAH’S RELATION. A case of theft was heard in the Police Court yesterday, and, in viev of the persons concerned, may be of interest to Taiping residents. A man named Sinaya brought the charcre against Mr. Mohammed Ali b. Mvdm. who claimed to
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  • 365 89 OFFICIAL TEXT. Article i. Il is agreed that all p rov j. sions of existing treaties between the High Contracting Parties which limit in any way the right of China to settle her national Customs tariff in such a way as she may think fit are hereby abrogated
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  • 60 89 MANY MINERS MISSINGShanghai, January 28 It is reported from Mukden that an explosion occurred this morning in e first pit of the South Manchuria I®“' way company’s coalmine at Yejitat r l hree Japanese and hundred Chine ininers are missii^.— Reuter. Mr. J. V. J. Sinclair,
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  • 1333 90  -  [By H, Milton.j -rnnfiider the remarkable case of the nnhone” writes Mr. St. John eX in a recent Ob erver i” Be re rte “ar this instrument was despised by J inainritv of intelligent people. It ie »«ked and squealed and emitted long. S dnny noises that
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  • 106 90 FIVE YEARS FOR RETURNING FROM BANISHMENT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, January 29 At the Selangor Assizes to-day before the acting Chief Justice, a Chinese, w’ho had been banished for life, was charged with returning from banishment. He pleaded guilty, saying that he had come to fetch
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  • 220 90 JUDGMENT FOR THE DEFENDANT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, January 29 Sir William Murison gave judgment in favour of the Singapore Hume Pipe Co in the action brought by the United Engineers for damages in a collision between a lorry and a train. The plaintiff’s argued
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  • 829 91 *ST. GEORGE’S SOCIETY. /From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca, Jan. 23 The Annual General Meeting of the St George s Society (Malacca Branch) was held at the Malacca Club. The president Mr. C. Holden was in the chair. The balance sheet for the year ending 1928 showed a credit
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  • 180 91 (From Our Own Correspondent.) a- ,1 T s ll Wore, January 28. Hip IT™ 6 J eg T a V 6 Council Meeting ,5 J agnaU n behalf of rje Vnofficials and the Hon. Mr G T Colonial Secretary', ed w be Officia,9 > ed Sir
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  • 1056 91 HIS ADDRESS AT THF ANGLOCHINESE SCHOOL Mr. Johnson s t Oppea here ou Friday and addressed a r Z tentative gathering in the An 2 Chinese Girls’ School. Among th people present could be seen the kJ and Mrs. W. A. Schurr, the Rev e F.
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  • 513 92 FIRST VISIT TO WEST COAST. (Special to “The Straits Echo”.) The first visit of His Majesty King Rama VII of Siam to his west-coast dominions, mainly consisting of the territories of Puket and Renong, was due to commence yesterday, when, accompanied by bis Royal Consort, he
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  • 313 92 FOOTBALL CUP COMPET ITION. (From Our Own Correspondent) Alor Star, January 21. The four teams which have survived elimination in the Kedah Football Association Cup-tie Competition, are the Youngsters’ Recreation Club, the Alor Star Government English School, Bandar Bahru, and Kulim. These teams therefore enter the semi-finals. Kulim
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  • 117 92 Amount previously acknowdedged $6,162.58 Mr. H. L. Mitchell 25.00 D. W. F. Hatelie 2.00 J. Cannon 10.00 “Anonymous” > 10.00 Mr. C. R. Gibbons 5.00 R. O. Wood 5.00 A. K. Murphy 10.00 D. Almond 10.00 R. B. Falls 10.00 W. H. Evans 10 00 J.
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  • 565 93 BRIGHT ALL ROUND SHOW. "Despite the many counter-attractions, the Bako Circus, which opened its season at Magazine Hoad on Sunday last, i» drawing large crowds nightly, and these signified their appreciation of the entertainment provided by rounds of applause for almost every item. The programme is a
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  • 212 93 RESULT OF CHINESE BOYCOTT. (From Our Own Correspondent; Kuala Lumpur, January 22 At a public meeting of the Chinese Community held this afternoon at the Chamber of Commerce, presided over by Mr. Loke Chow Thye, a long letter of explanation by Mr. Orville Harder, the proprietor
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  • 270 93 Everybody in Penang will be very sorry to learn that Mr. E. E. Chambers, the popular manager of the Chartered Bank, Penang, is shortly going on transfer to Kuala Lumpur to take charge of the Branch there. Mr. Chambers has been Branch Manager here for
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  • 534 93 [By “Icon”], There have been two minor I in the Share Market, both with dredging propositions which SB' have had more serious were it not that the market i« I sent dominated by Rubber. Ifon perties are situated in SelangJ the case of Kuyoh, the Director 1 culated
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    • 101 95 < X t yi I Penang Sin Poe f I <* t t (ESTABLISHED 1896.) t X X X j Chinese Daily Paper X <* I f I 9 i 9 i x I T I The Oldest Chinese paper in Penang 24-28 PAGES. I I Th? most comprehensive and
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